Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth..

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially..

The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life ….

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form..

Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read the words of….

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it.

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color..

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the pai….

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched..

The more seriously you take yourself, the less others will..

There is no beginning too small..

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe..

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of ….

The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of….

The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love..

I'm a happily declared chocoholic. I keep it everywhere, even my nightstand..

Forget your ideas about art. Make a shopping list of everything you like about what you've done. Include qualities that you've seen in your life, in ….

It's wonderful. It's amazing. I mean we have such a great music scene and art scene and there's just a great group of young people, you know, temping….

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth..

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’.

For things to change, we must change..